When You’re Living Abroad… and Your Mind Won’t Slow Down

This free guide offers a simple 3-step CBT-inspired tool to help you slow down, when your thoughts won’t, and reconnect with yourself living abroad.

This can be the emotional duality of living abroad, the quiet, invisible weight behind the beauty.
Living abroad is beautiful, and it’s human to feel overwhelmed sometimes.
You can love the life you’ve created and still have moments when it all feels too much.

Both can be true.

Living abroad can be one of the most enriching, transformative experiences.

It opens you up to new cultures, connections, and ways of seeing the world. It stretches you. It teaches you, and it often changes you in ways you never expected.

You build resilience, independence, and perspective, and you meet wonderful people along the way.

Some days, it feels like your brain just won’t switch off.

You go over the same thoughts again and again, trying to make sense of something small, second-guessing a decision, worrying if you said the wrong thing.

You try to be logical. You try to let it go. But instead, you often end up feeling even more stuck, exhausted from thinking so much, or frustrated that you can’t seem to stop.

So, What You’ll Get Inside This Guide?

This guide offers a grounded pause, using a simple tool from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you relate to your thoughts with more awareness and intention.

Rather than pushing your thoughts away or trying to control them, this guide invites you to slow down and make sense of what’s going on beneath the surface,  so you can respond with more clarity and care, especially when your thoughts feel loud or overwhelming.

Inside, you’ll walk through a gentle, 3-step process you can return to whenever things feel noisy or unsettled:

  1. Notice what’s really going on beneath the spiral

  2. Name the pattern your mind is caught in

  3. Navigate your next step from a steadier place

This is one of the same tools I use in therapy with expats and internationals expats who are navigating identity shifts, emotional overwhelm & life transition.

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If this gives you a small moment of clarity, or helps you feel a little more like yourself, I’d genuinely love to hear. My inbox is always open 🤍